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Unlikely. AI projects are tied to Nvidia not to Linux. They just port their driver to FreeBSD or Solaris or whatever. The AI crowd will follow. But they can als
by wang_li 3y ago
Unlikely. AI projects are tied to Nvidia not to Linux. They just port their driver to FreeBSD or Solaris or whatever. The AI crowd will follow. But they can also just release drivers that as part of the driver install patches the end user's kernel to remove this janky stuff.
- trasz4 3y ago[dead]
- colinsane 3y agoi'm out of the loop on this one. i did a good deal of HPC -- specifically electromagnetics simulation -- about a year ago and Spir-V worked OOTB for GPGPU on AMD processors. hell, i wrote my kernels in _Rust_ and they compiled and ran just fine (Embark Studio's `rust-gpu` shim), which is about as edge-casey as i can imagine. how is AI stuff tied to nvidia? what would make it difficult to port (or to be portable)?
- debugnik 3y agoAFAIK the vast majority of ML training/inference on the GPU runs on CUDA, and has done so for many years, while other vendor-specific GPU backends are slowly gaining support. It doesn't help that AMD's equivalent open toolchain, ROCm, is barely even supported by their own GPU lineup.
- slavik81 3y agoFWIW, ROCm GPU support is getting better, particularly in the distro-provided packages. e.g. https://salsa.debian.org/rocm-team/community/team-project/-/wikis/Supported-GPU-list https://salsa.debian.org/rocm-team/community/team-project/-/...